Circular scratches pretty much ruin the disc.

speaking of 360 problems my controller is whacked out.

The wireless does not work at all no matter how many times I try to sync it up with the console. No big dealer because I think wireless controllers are trendy bullshit anyway.

So I plug it in to the charge cord and plug the cord into the usb slot. The lights confirm that the battery is fully charged so I have no idea why the wireless is kaput.

So when playing I have to hold the controller high up to my chest. Why you ask? because if I let my arms drop and the controller ends up around my stomach area the screen informs me that the controller disconnected and asks me to re connect it. Now I like to play video games sitting on the floor, and if I'm not holding the controller at chest height like the 360 wants me to my arms are under the coffee table I sit next to.

So I'm thinking that the table is blocking the reception of the wireless.....EXCEPT THAT I'VE GOT THE GOD DAMNED PIECE OF SHIT PLUGGED IN!!!

ANY ideas wtf is wrong with my controller?

Here's another WTX XBOX moment for me.

A year or so back I bought Oblivion for the PC, slapped an extra gig of ram a dvd drive and the best Nvidea graphics card I could afford into my craptastic dell 2400. It shouldn't have worked but it did play.....for about a half hour and then blue screen of death. some sort of buffer overflow problem, my computer has been retarded ever since I let my step dad flash the bios to get past the bios password we forgot, so I gave up on playing it on the PC.

A few days ago I decided to buy the GOTY version of Oblivion since I wanted to check out the Shivering Ilses expansion. After character creation and the boring tutorial through the sewers I stepped out into the game expecting the impressive (yeah my comp is shit but I could play the game on medium settings and it looked pretty good to me) visuals I got on the PC.


ok wtf LAME crappy draw distance, all the plants and grass and rocks and shit just pop into existence, the landscape in the distance is just hills with low res skins over them, looks like a slightly less angular version of Zelda 64. Sure it looks great with the grass swaying in the wind right next to me, but when I look across the river and see a big fat bald ugly green hill and the trees pop into existence once i get within 20 feet of them it just kills the mood for me. Urgh it's just ugly and stupid looking.

I'm just disappointed really.

scamrock wrote:

Blackout wrote: Here's another WTX XBOX moment for me. A year or so back I bought Oblivion for the PC, slapped an extra gig of ram a dvd drive and the best Nvidea graphics card I could afford into my craptastic dell 2400. It shouldn't have worked but it did play.....for about a half hour and then blue screen of death. some sort of buffer overflow problem, my computer has been retarded ever since I let my step dad flash the bios to get past the bios password we forgot, so I gave up on playing it on the PC. A few days ago I decided to buy the GOTY version of Oblivion since I wanted to check out the Shivering Ilses expansion. After character creation and the boring tutorial through the sewers I stepped out into the game expecting the impressive (yeah my comp is shit but I could play the game on medium settings and it looked pretty good to me) visuals I got on the PC. ok wtf LAME crappy draw distance, all the plants and grass and rocks and shit just pop into existence, the landscape in the distance is just hills with low res skins over them, looks like a slightly less angular version of Zelda 64. Sure it looks great with the grass swaying in the wind right next to me, but when I look across the river and see a big fat bald ugly green hill and the trees pop into existence once i get within 20 feet of them it just kills the mood for me. Urgh it's just ugly and stupid looking. I'm just disappointed really. I've never had a problem with it. I always thought it looked fine. But I've never played in on PC. I wish I would have got it on PC instead because of all of the badass mods you can get. But now that you've brought up the flaws, I'll probably notice them. If I play it again that is. I haven't played it in about 2 years now since I did pretty much everything there is to do except one thing with that ogre bitch who wants to be a knight. We were supposed to fight these guys, but when I got there, one was already there killed and the others never show up. That and I've never played the SI expansion. I had already done everything and got burned out by the time it came out. I didn't want to pay the money for it.

yeah it really looks crappy compared to PC. It's playable but it was a let down the first time I stepped out of the sewer.

scamrock wrote:

Blackout wrote: scamrock wrote: Blackout wrote: Here's another WTX XBOX moment for me. A year or so back I bought Oblivion for the PC, slapped an extra gig of ram a dvd drive and the best Nvidea graphics card I could afford into my craptastic dell 2400. It shouldn't have worked but it did play.....for about a half hour and then blue screen of death. some sort of buffer overflow problem, my computer has been retarded ever since I let my step dad flash the bios to get past the bios password we forgot, so I gave up on playing it on the PC. A few days ago I decided to buy the GOTY version of Oblivion since I wanted to check out the Shivering Ilses expansion. After character creation and the boring tutorial through the sewers I stepped out into the game expecting the impressive (yeah my comp is shit but I could play the game on medium settings and it looked pretty good to me) visuals I got on the PC. ok wtf LAME crappy draw distance, all the plants and grass and rocks and shit just pop into existence, the landscape in the distance is just hills with low res skins over them, looks like a slightly less angular version of Zelda 64. Sure it looks great with the grass swaying in the wind right next to me, but when I look across the river and see a big fat bald ugly green hill and the trees pop into existence once i get within 20 feet of them it just kills the mood for me. Urgh it's just ugly and stupid looking. I'm just disappointed really. I've never had a problem with it. I always thought it looked fine. But I've never played in on PC. I wish I would have got it on PC instead because of all of the badass mods you can get. But now that you've brought up the flaws, I'll probably notice them. If I play it again that is. I haven't played it in about 2 years now since I did pretty much everything there is to do except one thing with that ogre bitch who wants to be a knight. We were supposed to fight these guys, but when I got there, one was already there killed and the others never show up. That and I've never played the SI expansion. I had already done everything and got burned out by the time it came out. I didn't want to pay the money for it. yeah it really looks crappy compared to PC. It's playable but it was a let down the first time I stepped out of the sewer. I've thought about getting it for PC a few times. But after puttin in hundreds of hours of gameplay, starting all over makes me feel a little sick to my stomach.

if you've sunk that much time into it it's not really worth starting over just for the prettier graphics, gameplay > graphics...

scamrock wrote:

Blackout wrote: scamrock wrote: Blackout wrote: scamrock wrote: Blackout wrote: Here's another WTX XBOX moment for me. A year or so back I bought Oblivion for the PC, slapped an extra gig of ram a dvd drive and the best Nvidea graphics card I could afford into my craptastic dell 2400. It shouldn't have worked but it did play.....for about a half hour and then blue screen of death. some sort of buffer overflow problem, my computer has been retarded ever since I let my step dad flash the bios to get past the bios password we forgot, so I gave up on playing it on the PC. A few days ago I decided to buy the GOTY version of Oblivion since I wanted to check out the Shivering Ilses expansion. After character creation and the boring tutorial through the sewers I stepped out into the game expecting the impressive (yeah my comp is shit but I could play the game on medium settings and it looked pretty good to me) visuals I got on the PC. ok wtf LAME crappy draw distance, all the plants and grass and rocks and shit just pop into existence, the landscape in the distance is just hills with low res skins over them, looks like a slightly less angular version of Zelda 64. Sure it looks great with the grass swaying in the wind right next to me, but when I look across the river and see a big fat bald ugly green hill and the trees pop into existence once i get within 20 feet of them it just kills the mood for me. Urgh it's just ugly and stupid looking. I'm just disappointed really. I've never had a problem with it. I always thought it looked fine. But I've never played in on PC. I wish I would have got it on PC instead because of all of the badass mods you can get. But now that you've brought up the flaws, I'll probably notice them. If I play it again that is. I haven't played it in about 2 years now since I did pretty much everything there is to do except one thing with that ogre bitch who wants to be a knight. We were supposed to fight these guys, but when I got there, one was already there killed and the others never show up. That and I've never played the SI expansion. I had already done everything and got burned out by the time it came out. I didn't want to pay the money for it. yeah it really looks crappy compared to PC. It's playable but it was a let down the first time I stepped out of the sewer. I've thought about getting it for PC a few times. But after puttin in hundreds of hours of gameplay, starting all over makes me feel a little sick to my stomach. if you've sunk that much time into it it's not really worth starting over just for the prettier graphics, gameplay > graphics... Well, the only reason I was considering it was for all of the cool mods on the PC version.

They are indeed cool, but I've had problems with alot of them, any thing with new textures / armor / items tends to screw up the regular textures and meshes, I mihgt have loaded them wrong but they sure messed up my game. Imperial Guards missing breastplates etc...